Portable irrigating-machine.



A. ANDREWS.

PORTABLE IRRIGATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1915.

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Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

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A. ANDREWS.

PORTABLE IRRIGATING MACHlNE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1 915.

Patented Dec. 5,1916.

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A. ANDREWS.

PORTABLE IRRIGATING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8. 1915.

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AL ANDREWS, OF MOORCROFT, WYOMING, ASSIGNOR T PORTABLE PULL AND PUSH IRRIGATING PUMP COlvIPAN Y, OF WYOMING.

PORTABLE IRRIGATIN G-MACHIN E.

Application filed May 8, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AL ANDREWS, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Moorcroft, in the county of Crook and State of Wyoming, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Irrigating-Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved portable irrigating machine and has for its primary object to provide simple and efficient mechanism for easily and quickly elevating large quantities of water from a stream for distribution to irrigating conduits in the surface of a field.

The invention has for one of its detail objects to provide a wheel supported frame having a pipe mounted therein at one of its ends for vertical swinging movement, means carried by the frame to raise or lowersaid pipe, and an endless water elevator provided at intervals with pistons to receive the water and one stretch of said conveyer being mov-- able through said pipe whereby the water is discharged by the pistons into the upper end of the pipe.

It is a further general object of the invention to provide a machine of the above character which is simple and durable in its construction, highly serviceable and con venient in practical use, and may be manufactured at comparatively small cost.

lVith the above and other objects in view,

" my invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed, and illustrated in the accon'ipanying drawing, in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an irrigating machine constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof; Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal section of the water elevator; Fig. 4:

is a section taken on the line 41- 4: of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 2.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 5 designates a suitable frame structure which is mounted at its oppositeends upon the supporting wheels 6. The frame includes longitudinally extending side bars, and in these bars, at one of their ends, the extremities of a transverse shaft 7 are journaled.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1916.

Serial No. 26,840.

Upon this shaft, intermediate of its ends, the sprocket wheel 8 is fixed. To one end of a metal pipe 9, the spaced bars or arms 10 are rigidly clamped or otherwise fixed by the brace 11, and said bars are curved upwardly and have their end portions disposed upon opposite sides of the sprocket wheel 8 and loosely engaged upon the shaft 7 Similar curved arms or bars 12 are also secured upon the opposite end of the pipe 9, and between the same, the sprocket wheel 13 is rotatably mounted. The sprocket wheels 8 and 13 are of the mutilated or interrupted toothed type to provide the spaces or recesses 14: for the reception of the water elevating pistons 15 which are arranged at intervals in the endless chain 16 trained over the sprockets 8 and 13 and driven from the former. To the free end of the pipe 9, a longitudinally extended curved guard plate 16 is riveted or otherwise fixed. This guard plate extends around theunder side of the sprocket wheel 13 and protects the same, as well as the water receiving buckets on the endless chain, from injury by contact with the bed of a stream. The pipe 9 is additionally braced and supported by means of the diagonal rods 17 which have one of their ends connected to the intermediate portion ofsaid pipe by the clamping rings 18 and their other ends loosely engaged upon the extremities of the shaft 7.

To the longitudinal side bars of the frame 5, the lower ends of the obliquely inclined converging bearing beams 19 are securely bolted, said beams being braced and supported by the uprights 9.0 which are mounted upon the frame bars and securely bolted at their upper ends to the respective beams. To the pipe 9, adjacent to its free end, space bars 21 are fixed and braced by means of the inclined truss rods 22, and to the upper ends of these spaced bars, a sheave carrying block 23 is connected. A similar sheave block 24 is also attached to the connected upper ends of the beams 19 and a hoisting rope or cable, indicated at 25, is trained over these sheaves and connected to the block 23 at one of its ends. From this sheave, the cable is extended over the guide pulley or wheel 26 mounted between the upper ends of the beams 19, and then downwardly through a drum 27 which is fixed upon a transversely disposed shaft 28 journaled in suitable bearings on the side bars of the frame 5. One of the drum heads carries a gear 29 with which a gravity pawl 30, mounted upon one of the longitudinal bars of the frame 5, is adapted to engage, whereby the drum may be held against reverse turning movement after the cable has been wound thereon. A second transverse shaft 31 is also journaled in bearings mounted on the frame, and upon this shaft, the belt wheel 32 is fixed. A second belt wheel ist is loosely mounted upon said shaft. A clutch member 33 is keyed upon said shaft for sliding movement, and the teeth thereof are adapted to engage with the clutch teeth provided upon the hub of the wheel 4A. This wheel is connected by a power transmission belt 15 to a belt wheel 46 which is fixed upon the transverse shaft 7. The clutch member 33 is shifted by means of a rod 34. connected to one end of a lever 35 pivotally mounted intermediate of its ends, as at 36, upon one of the frame bars. The rod 34: is longitudinally shiftable through suitable guides 37.

38 designates an operating engine, the

shaft of which is connected by means of' an endless drive belt 39 to the wheel 32. A gear 40 is also keyed upon the shaft 31 for sliding movement and is adapted to be shifted into or out of mesh with the gear 29 on the end of the cable drum by means of a rod ll mounted upon the frame, said rod being provided with teeth 42 on one side for engagement by a spring pressed pawl 43 mounted on the frame, whereby said rod is held against casual movement and the power transmitting gear lO retained in its adjusted position upon the shaft 31.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and arrangement of the several cooperating parts of the invention will be clearly and fully understood. The operation of the machine is as follows: The machine is first drawn over the field to the desired point, adjacent to a stream, and upon releasing the drum 27 by throwing-the pawl 30 out of engagement with the gear 29, the pipe 9 and endless elevating chain 16 will swing downwardly with respect to the frame and extend in a downwardly inclined position over the bank of the stream and into the water thereof. The engine 38 now being set in operation, it will be seen that the shaft 31 is thus rotated and the clutch member 33 being thrown in, power will be transmittedby the belt 45 to the shaft '7 so that the elevating cable 16 is operated. This cable moves in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1, the lower stretch thereof passing upwardly through the pipe 9. As the pistons 15 on the cable are successively drawn over the lower sprocket wheel 13 and around the same, each of said pistons carries a quantity of water upwardly through the pipe 19 and discharge the same from the upper end thereof into a flume or conduit in the ground surface. As the water elevator may be operated at high speed, it will be seen that a large gi antity of water may be quickly elevated from the stream and discharged into the irrigating conduit. The entire apparatus may then be moved to another location along the bank of the stream and water discharged therefrom to other parts of the field. In this manner, the entire field may be quickly irrigated without the great amount of manual labor which is ordinarily incident to such irrigating operations. The invention, as a whole, is of comparatively simple construction and, therefore, not liable to get out of order. Such an irrigating apparatus may be cheaply manufactured and is of great convenience and serviceability in practical use.

While I have shown and described the preferred construction and arrangement of" the several elements employed, it is to be understood that the invention is susceptible of considerable modification therein and I, therefore, reserve the privilege of resorting to all such legitimate changes as may be fairly embodied within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a wheel supported frame, of a pipe pivotally mounted in one end of the frame for vertical swinging movement, means mounted upon the frame and operatively connected to the pipe for raising or lowering the same, braces piv otally mounted at one of their ends in the frame in co-axial relation with the pivot of said pipe and fixed at their other ends to the pipe, an endless water elevator provided with spaced pistons, one stretch of the elevator being movable through the pipe, a guard plate fixed to the free end of the pipe and projecting longitudinally therefrom beneath the water elevator for contact with the bed of a stream, and means mounted upon the frame for operating the water elevator.

2. The combination with a wheel supported frame, of a pipe pivotally mounted at one of its ends in said frame for vertical swinging movement, brace rods pivoted on the frame at oneof their ends, means clamping the other ends of said rods to opposite sides of said pipe, a sprocket wheel mounted upon the free end of the pipe, a driving sprocket mounted in the frame, an endless elevator trained over said sprocket and provided at intervals with water receiving pistons, one stretch of the elevator extending through said pipe, a longitudinally extending curved guard plate fixed to the free end of the pipe to protect said elevator against injury means for raising or lowering the pipe and said Water elevator, and means mounted on the frame for operating said elevator.

3. The combination with a wheel supported frame, of a pipe mounted in said frame at one of its ends for vertical swinging movement, an endless water elevator having one stretch thereof movable through said pipe, a supporting sprocket Wheel for said elevator detachably mounted upon the other end of the pipe, an elongated,longitudinally extending guard plate fixed at one of its ends to the under side of the latter end of the pipe and having a curved portion projecting beneath and beyond said sprocket Wheel for contact with the bed of a stream, and means mounted upon the frame for operating said elevator.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

AL ANDREWS. Witnesses:

0. WV. Smvnns,

FRED E. GUTHERY.

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